Leicester 0-2 Arsenal: 3 key things we learned

Slow starters

Being two-nil down in as early as the eighteenth minute should be a watershed moment for Brendan Rodgers. Starting games slowly is as common as the bad defending. Last week at Brentford, they were lucky not to be a couple of goals down before they took the lead. It sounds like a cliche, but it does seem to take Leicester thirty minutes to wake up into matches before they look like they are dangerous. They’ve conceded seven goals this season in the opening half an hour and it can’t continue.

The complete lack of aggressive pressing on a susceptible Arsenal back-line was strange and in complete contrast to the Manchester United victory. It almost seemed like they were being asked to just purely sit in pockets of space when defending from the front. This permeated through the rest of the team with Gunners players able to find time to pick passes and turn and run with the ball. The only notable Leicester City chances created were long-range efforts. With a truly world-class double save by Aaron Ramsdale from a James Maddison free-kick being a particular highlight.

This seemed to completely change in the second half with the introduction of Harvey Barnes and Ademola Lookman replacing Kelechi Iheanacho and Daniel Amartey. Although it may have been harsh, would it not have been better to make those changes earlier in the first half when it clearly wasn’t working.